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Car Bomb Attacked Thwarted~~~today in Iraq!
Sky News ^ | NA

Posted on 09/01/2003 5:18:03 AM PDT by Dog

CAR BOMB ATTACK THWARTED

Security forces have arrested two men outside a mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufah after finding two cars laden with bombs.

The arrests came amid warnings from clerics that Saddam Hussein loyalists or al-Qaeda members will strike over the next two days.

The men were arrested outside the Masjed al-Kufah mosque, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad.

"We found the seats (in one car stopped on Sunday) were not well designed and had new covers. This raised our suspicion and we searched the seats and found them filled with bombs," a policemen said.

"Yesterday we seized the same kind of car filled with bombs," he said, adding that that car was driven by two men from Yemen.

The two men detained on Monday were from the southern Iraqi city of Basra, he said.

Last Updated: 12:28 UK, Monday September 01, 2003


TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; carbombing; foiled; iraq; kufah; rebuildingiraq; waronterror
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To: Dog
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61 posted on 09/01/2003 11:29:46 AM PDT by lowbridge (Texas Democrats. Saddam. On the lam together.)
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To: Dog; Ragtime Cowgirl
Great find, Dog! This should be all over the news but I haven't heard a peep so far. They'd rather report lives lost, not lives saved.
Thanks for the heads up, RC!

Reporter doesn't state whether the 'security forces' or the 'policeman' were Iraqi or Coalition troops.

My guess (and hope) is they're Iraqis, trained by the Coalition forces. They'll have their own "ways" of getting info out of these scums. *evil grin*
But the really important issue is that these attacks have been thwarted and who knows how many lives have been saved. Great news all 'round!

It's fantastic seeing more and more news about Coalition troops and Iraqis working together and getting results such as this. It's working.

62 posted on 09/01/2003 2:57:36 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Dog
If DEBKA serves our purposes , we like it . If it doesn't serve our purposes then we scoff at it. Thanks for the heads up.
63 posted on 09/01/2003 3:05:22 PM PDT by diamondbill
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To: csvset
Yemen=AQ ?

A good bet. Captured Al-Qeada members have been found to be from there and it borders the most rabid, wahhabist, anti-western , terror supporting country in the region, Saudi Arabia.

64 posted on 09/01/2003 3:19:07 PM PDT by cardinal4 (The Senate Armed Services Comm; the Chinese pipeline into US secrets)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Dog; Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Grampa Dave; BOBTHENAILER
And the tips keep pouring in.

Perps are shown films of the corpse of William "Action" Jackson after his 1961 three-day torture-execution by Mafia boss DeStefano as an example of the treatment of the recalcitrant.

If that fails to unlock their tongues, they have headphones strapped on and are subjected to a tape-loop of Helen Thomas questions for Ari Fleischer.


65 posted on 09/01/2003 5:34:28 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
BUMP!!
66 posted on 09/01/2003 5:53:50 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Stop the violins!! Visualize whirled peas...)
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To: blam
Wasn't there some sort of radiation source, possibly spent medical stuff or containers that the UN new about that the Iraqi's broke into and looted off the containers just after we took Baghdad?

I thought I remembered reading months ago about concerns about radiation poisoning from them hauling off those containers to put milk in them or something.'

??

Prairie
67 posted on 09/01/2003 6:08:06 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (The UN got a wake up call. And has chosen to go back to sleep.)
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To: prairiebreeze
I think it was some kind of barrels, yes.
68 posted on 09/01/2003 6:16:40 PM PDT by blam
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To: Tree of Liberty
Really? I thought they came from hell.
69 posted on 09/01/2003 6:49:34 PM PDT by bluelowrider57 (More of da thugz crawlin)
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To: PhilDragoo
Uncle! Lol!

It's probably wrong to have so much fun thinking up ways to annoy the terrorists: (^;

USO Canteen FReeper Style ~ MUSIC DEDICATION: HELP ANNOY TERRORISTS! ~ 02 AUG 2003


70 posted on 09/01/2003 7:36:26 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl (“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity."- Winston Churchill {and aids evildoers- RC})
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
71 posted on 09/01/2003 7:47:51 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: pt17
May these two men have a very uncomfortable night!

While I agree in principle, I think these guys will be feeling no pain whatsoever, and will in fact, be experiencing better living through chemistry, and they will also be telling our friendly “chemists” everything they want to know.

72 posted on 09/01/2003 7:49:48 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Dog
Great job by the Iraqi police. hopefully, the inherent secularism of the Iraqis will rise to the forefront.

Iraq - the first arab openly anti ALQaeda, aka Saudi country.

Hope they find the missing car, too.
73 posted on 09/02/2003 10:40:46 AM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: swarthyguy
(same kind of car) Well, was it a FORD (P.O.S.)?
74 posted on 09/02/2003 11:48:00 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: princess leah
FORD really stands for: FULL OF REAL DEADENDERS!
75 posted on 09/02/2003 11:48:42 AM PDT by princess leah
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